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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
My dog and I went to an agility trial/competition. He was pretty distracted for three out of four runs, but we got our first perfect score in the non-distracted run. Super duper pleased with our progress and really proud of us for winning first place in our class.
Video of our perfect score run
I also took my little dog Jean to walk around. She’s been worse around other dogs the past few months on our walks and in public (barking, lunging, etc). However, she was a perfect angel in the building walking by other dogs in crates and those who were moving around. This was a huge win, since I’d like to start competing with her next year!
Awwww, this was so great to watch! Awesome job you two!
I took my first Amtrak (US national train operator) trip to visit siblings.
I love Amtrak! Not ideal when you need to be somewhere quickly, but so much more relaxing than a plane ride.
Thoughts?
~autumn has it right, it’s slow, but it’s significantly more relaxed than flying. Bring something long to read, and a little extra food, and be aware that you won’t always have a cell signal.
I went to the Antwerp rink. 1h45min of travel time from Brussels. It's kinda crazy! 45min train, 25 min bus, 20 min walk, 15 mins wait between train and bus.
The rink doesn't appear to make much money, in fact it's in a pretty sad state. Which is disappointing; it's really large (seems to be a converted airplane hangar), has a speed skating track and a bunch of cool stuff to train jumps.
Here's a cute photo I took.
Here in the south US ice skating rinks are a rare species but we do have a few roller rinks although they seem to be dying out as years go by, especially with covid. My local one's shut down indefinitely. It's very sad as we need these places even moreso since physical forms of entertainment have taken a backseat to more digital forms.
We've had a few ice rinks go bankrupt here in Belgium during lockdown, and I heard of several others in France and other neighbouring countries. It's very sad.
That said, every time I take a close look at those rinks having difficulties, I keep coming across stories of mismanagement, wasted potential, etc. I think they're a difficult thing to get right, but I believe they're extremely economically viable if you do get it right.
More random fiddling with things that don't need it after I tried all weekend to get a Debian install done natively to btrfs subvolumes using a test laptop, so I could do it on my desktop Windows, Arch and Debian (each one for different reasons). I had a whole lot of non-Debian issues, like my router's DNS having problems (a quick reboot fixed it, but it happens occasionally). I'm now posting from that Debian install I wanted on my desktop. I also really wish there was a Debian-based distro with an installer as feature-rich and non-opinionated as Anaconda (RH/Fedora's installer), because even if I can't do nested subvolumes (my Debian setup is /debian/@root and /debian/@home) I can name them on my own for organization (/@fedroot /@fedhome). Now I just need to get my Linux steam library shared between distros and everything's perfect. EDIT: Just got my Arch and Debian installs sharing a Steam library via subvolume, so that's nice.
I picked up juggling again after Modern Rogue's recent video. The problem is, my balls are cheap and delaminating and shedding black fuzz all over the place, so I bought an identical replacement set. I can do a 3-ball cascade for a couple of rotations after a couple days of practice, but my arms are definitely getting tired from it. I also can't seem to relax into it yet, but am finding ways to focus and keep it going.